[TWhiteBear]

This is another non starter.
There is no/are no substantive changes to make health care either better or cheaper...just moving beans around to different voting blocs and big donors.
“reduce premiums’ compared to what??
How about first letting free market insurance to cross state lines...
and health care coop and savings accounts,
and agreeing to pass legislation and not cleverly sign papers and regs that can be repealed with the stroke of a pen.
This is just more posturing.
TWB

[JustSurrounded]

Well, I got an EOB the other day for some blood tests. Quest billed blue cross more than $400, Blue Cross said only a bit over $40 was allowed, which I paid because I haven't maxed out my deductible. That's it. Quest received and accepted $40 total for the service. Think of the cost of overhead to process that paperwork. Had I gone in paying cash, I would have been forced to pay $400. Why? Because if Quest charged me the $40 directly, insurance would cut them off. It is collusion to fix prices for the uninsured. Feds do it, too. It's a racket to make insurance necessary, allowing insurance companies to grow fat on premiums.

It is outrageous, racketeering, and a national disgrace.

It would be a simple thing to make it illegal for insurance companies (and medicare) to set prices for folks who don't have or choose to use insurance. That is a cheap change ... no new bureaucracy.

Right now there is no free market, no level playing field. That change, along with removing the mandate and allowing the purchase of only catastrophic coverage, and I believe we'd be well on the way to correcting the system.

That would be the very first thing I'd do.